 With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the...  Songs of Three Centuries - Page 160edited by - 1875 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids..."Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave Along with... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...Plying her needle and tbread — Stitсh ! stitrh ! stilch '. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And s Iili with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song...crowing aloof! And work — work — work. Till the etnrs ehino tbrough the roof! It's О ! to he a slave Along with the bnrharous Turk, Where woman han... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...futurity, where the tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...©tiderinnen béé (Srjgebirgeę unb an= beret Drte ˇu Siebe eé beffer fiberfegen möge. The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! ID poverty, hunger, and dirt, *) Ш fiat fid) Mt-jUid), wit une bit Rettungen berichteten, ju ®un|ien... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...heart — But in their briny bed . My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" Glimpses of the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" NEW AND VALUABLE... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— She sang this - Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. is... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and woni, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...work— work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's 0 ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If this... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...triumphs. Yours, for Free Meeting and the Spontaneous Press, THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and..."Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work! Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave NP ROGERS. Where... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM.... | |
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